Time to get to work. Thunder in the background. IRL thunder.
I'm gonna need sprites of a survivor holding the basic M1911 pistol. That will be fairly simple.
I have most of them done. After this I can implement basic moving and exploration gameplay. Then scrolling. Then zombies. Then health. Then ALPHA 1.0 people.

I just noticed something. At the rate I'm going, Minecraft DS will be complete in just a couple more months! After that, I'll take a (temporary?) "retirement" from Petit Computer. I'll keep up with the forums, but I won't make anything for about a month, if anything else at all. I'm moving into some more advanced languages, so know that I won't be around forever. When PTC 3D comes out, I might come back for a while, but a while is still not forever. Don't take this as a farewell! I still have a while before I stop making stuff. If you guys with for more updates for Minecraft DS after the official release, I might "give" the program to someone, like Notch "gave" Minecraft to Jeb, so the game can keep on improving.

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@IAmAPerson Okay, thanks for helping. It doesn't sound like I need VSYNC for anything, and the MAINCOUNTL system variable might come in handy. As for sprites, basically the character you control in the game is sprite #0. I have some other sprites that are a higher number, but the character sprite appears over the ones with a higher number. I don't know if the layering has to do with the control number or the order the sprites were created or something else.

I'm not really sure if you can see through untrue statements or not. Everyone knows me here, I would never MEAN that.

You're expecting everybody here to read your mind? So, what you're doing here is basically just say random things and let other people sort them out? That's too close to "Kill them all, and let God sort them out." SHIVERS.

So I won't be entering Cavalux. Its taking too long. I'll be entering a game I call "Robots Life". Its inspired by the popular online game "B-Cubed" and includes some elements inspired by Portal 2. You play as a robot, whose sole purpose is to test, test, test in the development for a better ai system for this company's line of robotics project. This robot wants to be free. to be needed. heck, he even has no name. But during the seemingly endless tests and puzzles, there is no chance of that. Or is there?

I'm not really sure if you can see through untrue statements or not. Everyone knows me here, I would never MEAN that.

You're expecting everybody here to read your mind? So, what you're doing here is basically just say random things and let other people sort them out? That's too close to "Kill them all, and let God sort them out." SHIVERS.

I actually didn't know why I said that. Maybe it was one of those days where I went half insane of being stuck...
For this scrolling this will be pretty easy, but for health I might have a very slight chance of having to use IF THEN and ELSE topped off with a little SPHIT. Some days I really do see how this is basic...
Buttons really are annoying...
I'm trying to make it so if you are at the Apocalypse Rising main menu, if you press A at New Game, then Hairmanban19's maps would load in a new game. But of course BTRIG and BUTTON are very tedious. I used this:
IF BTRIG()==16 AND Y==1 THEN GOTO @SURVIVESP
Anything wrong?
O.O @Lego-Meister I almost thought you were @PetitProfessor's secondary account until I realized you have better grammar and spelling. You just also have the same profile picture.

Iamaperson wrote something about PTC 3D. What is this? Is this a Version of Petit Computer
with that you can make 3D games?
If yes, does it release for 3DS?

It is a planned version of petit computer. It has been confirmed, but it will more than most likely not be released anytime soon. In the meantime, we can just play on and admire my majestic 3D program! lol jk

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Dang, adding the Item Weapons for MM2 is some serious business. I had to alter a good chunk of existing A.I. code for Megaman just to start implementing it. Unlike everything else, Megaman has to interact with these Item Weapons, and they affect his positioning and such. So far, I've got the first two Item Weapons working, and interaction seems fine, except if any of them are on-screen at the time Megaman transitions from one sub level to another. It screws up his positioning, even if he isn't on one. Probably won't take me long to figure out why that's happening.

But some good new (other than the fact that these are working) is that the code is designed to work with all objects that are marked as "moving sprite platforms", so in the process, this will also work with those platform rails seen in Crashman's stage and one of Dr. Wily's stages.

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Well, that was a quick fix. During transitions, Megaman's position is first set into the global entity positioning variables (used for spawning new entities), and updates his position using those. However, with the Item Weapons, if they are removed in any form outside of going off-screen, they spawn an "explosion" (like if they touch a wall). Any spawning requires the global entity positioning variables, so it set those to the position of where the explosion would be, but unfortunately, affected Megaman's position too. So, I made a variable that is toggled for when he transitions, and prevents the explosion spawning code if it is set.

Glad that's all sorted out. So, I think I can say the first two Item Weapons are fully functional. Now to work on Item Weapon 3.

As a side note, I currently have the platforming code in Megaman's A.I. set so that if the platform is moving upward with Megaman on it, and it closes up to the ceiling where Megaman would otherwise get squished, it becomes an automatic death. I believe the rail platforms operate in this way, but I never checked if the Item Weapons did this. I will have to check both cases, just in case. If it doesn't, then I'll have to shove Megaman downward, off the platform.

edit: Item 1 checked. It appears that in that case, the platform itself explodes, dropping Megaman. So I think only the platform rails would make Megaman explode in this case. Also........my platforming code messed with my ladder code, allowing Megaman to "stand" on a mid-section of a ladder.....

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Ugh, wrong again. Even the platform rails don't make him explode. They instead throw him off to the side. Not sure why I thought they would make him explode (maybe a different Megaman game?). Anyways, I'll just have the Item Weapons explode in that case, and for platform rails, he'll just simply drop down. The way it currently throws him to the side in the actual NES game has more to do with the way Megaman moves when "inside" a wall, which you can see with speed-runs and such (like TAS videos). This game won't be an exact replica, so I can make some improvising here and there.

Soon I would like to know some about sprites. I'm planning some new features for MCDS Beta 1.8 and I need to know some. Now, don't get the big idea that I want to know the most advanced commands about sprites. I am clueless. All I know about sprites is SPSET and SPOFS. That's it. SCRED? I know nothing. SPANIM? Nothing. SPHIT? No clue. Making custom sprites? Definitely nothing. I am CLUELESS! Plz help? And also, please make simple. Thanks!

Edit: Also, backgrounds! I know nothing about backgrounds. What am I planning? No one knows. •cough 1.6 isn't just a bug fix update cough• Sorry about that.

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@Discostew Ahh, the beautifully odd patterns produced by new and intermingled code. Lol those were interesting posts; thanks for telling us about your progress!

Indeed, and I found the problem too. It wasn't even the new platform interaction code either. It was a few variables that didn't get renamed with the rest that I wanted changed just prior to me starting the platforming code. Anyways, it's back to normal, but I did have to make some slight changes because Item 1 (a hovering platform that moves slowly upward for a short time) kept pushing Megaman up when he was hanging on a ladder (and still in the ladder position). It now simply passes him by until he lets go.